Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Well folks, are you ready to be even more depressed? Do you remember when SportsCenter first spoke to you??? Do you remember a little duo simply know as Patrick-Olbermann???

Are you ready for it....I don't think you are.....sit down please.....

It was 10 years ago today that Dan and Keith did their last show together as SportsCenter anchors.

How sad is that? Seriously....whatever happened to straight-forward Sports reporting with humor when warranted (and funny on top of that)??? We now have to deal with The Sklar Brothers, Sean Salisbury, Who's Now?, The Coors/Bud Light Six Pack, Stuart Scott, Die Hard, etc, etc, etc.....

It's to the point where I rarely even watch the show now. To be honest the only time I ever catch it is on Sunday's during Football season. Maybe they need all the gimmicks.....maybe they don't. But I miss the first "never miss show" I ever watched.

I leave you with this lyric from one of the best bands during the time of Dan and Keith's last show......

Thanks to Bruce for the comment below....I forgot to add that K and D are on Late Night tomorrow night.....

"Ya know, I haven't watched the Sunday night SC since KO left. In fact, I hardly watch it, period. They're scheduled to be on Letterman on Wednesday night, btw. I say "scheduled", because the last two times Patrick was booked were the Farrah meltdown, and Seinfeld's post-Michael Richards appearance, so it's a good bet something will happen."

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Ya know, I haven't watched the Sunday night SC since KO left. In fact, I hardly watch it, period.They're scheduled to be on Letterman on Wednesday night, btw. I say "scheduled", because the last two times Patrick was booked were the Farrah meltdown, and Seinfeld's post-Michael Richards appearance, so it's a good bet something will happen.

I find it ironic that some dumb AOL sprtswriter is going to badmouth Sportscenter...When AOL currently has a article based on the death of wrestler Chris Benoit, which lists the 25 sports death of the year. The list includes the racehorse barbaro, but does not include NHRA Funny Car driver Eric Medlen.

Are racehorses considered athletes and drag racers are not ? or is AOL just to dumb to research information before they post it.

I was thinking the other day about how SC used to be an hour on Sundays and 30 minutes the other days. Now that it's an hour every day, it's like they have to try to find/make up stuff to fill the whole time.Also, who remembers when Plays of the Week a) existed, and b) was narrated by the hosts?

While I agree that SportsCenter is not as good as it used to be, I really can't blame them. Lets face it, there are lots of sports fans out there, but there are not lots of sports fans who are really serious about sports. Most of the market is made up of casual consumers, and there just aren't enough people out there who take their sports seriously enough to warrant a network that spends most of their time doing in depth sports analysis or even a sports news show without a large entertainment factor built in. Like every other smart business, ESPN is just giving the people what they want, we're just not a part of the masses.

I remember it a little hazily, and I hadn't been watching SC religiously (like I used to when I still had a paper route and woke up early everyday - do kids still deliver the newspapers anymore without their parents' help?), and then I found out one of my favorite anchors was leaving for a news show. I was stunned, and pretty sad about it. One last "guh" for the ages.

But honestly, it made me feel young to find out that that show was only ten years ago. SC has fallen so far since then. It feels like its been twenty years.

One of the most telling things I remember is some small controversy with a baseball player happening after SC went to the hour-long format. I can't remember the circumstances. He was being asked questions by a reporter, and he came out and said something like: "I don't see why this is important. Now that you guys have to fill up an hour, you're making news out of nothing." (liberal paraphrase)

someone today (a youngster) did not believe me when I told them that SC once did highlights without music.

Selfishly, I love the Big Show book, since I am actually in it. I did a paper in grad school on references in Sportscenter and later presented the paper at an academic conference. I sent the paper to KO and DP and they mentioned it (perhaps not 100% favorably) in the book.